Unexpected activities for your location.

Yesterday while on the beach in South Haven, this skier noticed something that he had read about, but it was still odd to see. In the medium size waves where the typical swimmers and several groups of surfers. Yes, surfers on Lake Michigan. Apparently the waves are big enough to surf the waves but are still noticeably smaller than the big ocean waves. A while back the local paper did an article on it, but I figured that it would still be a rare sight.

What sports or activities take place in your area that many people would not expect to be there?

"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. Time makes more converts than reason." - Thomas Paine Common Sense.

Hockey in the Sunbelt A group of investors are building a 60,000 square foot ice skating facility near here. Here is 70 or so miles west of charlotte in the foothills of NC. They hope to have a youth hockey league and curling. Can you drink beer while you curl?

Several days ago at the gym, I saw a Haredi Jew working out on one of the treadmills. Long beard, black brimmed hat, white button-down long-sleeve shirt, black dress pants, and dress shoes, just jogging away. It just seemed wildly out-of-context.

Originally posted by donk

An option to add bacon to sandwiches at a deli that closes for Jewish holidays.

They just finished one here as well. They paid to have a building inspector on site for the entire job. The had plans and pretty much knew what they were going to do going in. They paid to have the plans reviewed a few days before demo.

"Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think."
Martin Luther King, Jr.

I think I've mentioned this before on Cyburbia but I once visited a French Resturant/Orchid Farm ten or so miles outside of a nowheresville Southwest Kansas burg of 1500 people to collect a water sample. It was owned by two very Prideful gentlemen. When I first encountered the place it was rather like finding an igloo in south India. You don't, at least I didn't, expect two gentlemen with a life commitment to be surrounded by ranchers in the rugged lands of SWKS.

"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. Time makes more converts than reason." - Thomas Paine Common Sense.